BOLLYWOOD MUSIC

Music in India is customised to suit the soul of cinema.Cinema in turn is tailored to earn maximum profits.A popular item girl not worth mentioning once had commented on what sells as cinema in India by using an alliteration-"Shahrukh and Sex".She may not be completely true but it is a fact that an average Indian prefers being served cheap thrills over arty cinema.Thus what we have as music is something which either disrupts the harmony inside or goes unregistered despite of its forceful attempts .Due to the same reason big names like Anu Malik and Pritam shamelessly lift music from different parts of the world and brand them as their own.Such people should be severely condemned and barred from making any music at all.

The independent music scene seems to be going out of existence.There was a time when independent albums were the in thing.The music that was dished out was not brilliant but here and there one could spot signs of it.Most importantly the music seemed original.The period I am talking about is when Alisha Chinoy swept the country off its feet with "Made in India",when singers like Shaan and Sonu Nigam and Lucky Ali made albums and bands like Euphoria and Silk Route were trying to establish themselves.

Today no artist or company is interested in making albums and TRP seeking talent hunt shows is where young artists try their luck.The era of cassettes is over and whatever CD's get sold are the pirated ones.Internet is where people get most of the music from.Musicians now have only one option and that is to make music for the movies.This has made music dependent on taste of the masses and on skimplily clad item girls.

Item song upon item song makes me hungrier for music that lasts,for songs that I can sing to myself without straining my brain to remember it.The
scene is not completely grim as exceptions are universal and to prove it we have "The Mozart from Madras" and a few other.Amit Trivedi has been like a breath of fresh air with the originality he has displayed in his brief career.Also moviemakers today are making better cinema and giving composers the freedom to experiment.Bollywood music needs to reinvent itself and the way forward is making it independent of cinema.The solution lies in the enemy itself that is the internet.Online music stores with a nominal charge per song and the profits from advertising on the website alongwith an arrangement that prevents the songs being illegally published elsewhere can help the present music scene a lot.Also the moviemakers must be made to pay a part of the profits based on the popularity of the music for the movie since it plays an important part in drawing attention of people towards the movie.It is true that nothing can constrain brilliance but clearing the path leads to a sense of freedom which is necesarry for artists getting experimentative and original.

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